Over the course of his distinguished career, Harry Carl Schaub served as Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Austria to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, partnered at the law firm Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, and authored a celebrated biography of the Austrian Abwehr General Erwin Lahousen. In this interview, Harry Carl Schaub casts a retrospective look on his lifetime of engagement with Austria. Conducted by Professor Frank Trommler, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, the three-part video focuses on the youth of Harry Carl Schaub in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, the consular professional life, and his work as a scholar of Austrian history.
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